13.10 Using Cheetah with gettext
gettext is a project for creating internationalized applications. For
more details, visit http://docs.python.org/lib/module-gettext.html.
gettext can be used with Cheetah to create internationalized applications, even
for CJK character sets, but you must keep a couple things in mind:
- xgettext is used on compiled templates, not on the templates themselves.
- The way the NameMapper syntax gets compiled to Python gets in the way of
the syntax that xgettext recognizes. Hence, a special case exists for the
functions
_, N_, and ngettext. If you need to use a
different set of functions for marking strings for translation, you must set
the Cheetah setting gettextTokens to a list of strings representing the
names of the functions you are using to mark strings for translation.
